Hilda Beatrice Currie

She was the only daughter of the Quakers, Sir Thomas Hanbury and Katherine Aldam Pease of Ventimiglia, Italy.

[2] She founded and maintained the first school for hospital nurses in Italy at Rome, for which she received the Benemerenti medal from the Pope.

[3] After moving to Britain she took up residence in Upham House, Aldbourne, Wiltshire, which she had purchased in 1909.

When her husband was knighted in 1920 for his services as Director of Training, Ministry of Labour,[5] she became Lady Currie.

[2] She was selected as Liberal candidate for the Devizes Division of Wiltshire at the 1922 general election; as her home constituency, she was already known to a number of the local electorate.